Health Care Bill A Good Start

January 22, 2010|Cindy Schwartz, Boca Raton

In response to the letter, "Warring over health care," the record clearly shows that Republicans have always opposed government involvement to improve health care and the lives of ordinary people. They opposed Social Security, they opposed Medicare, they opposed the bill to give health care to children, and now they oppose any proposal made by Democrats to at least start the process of reforming health care.

The health care reform bill making its way through Congress is certainly less than perfect, but it's a start. It will be studied and improved as we move forward over the years, just like Social Security and Medicare were. I strongly oppose the provisions to limit abortion rights in the bill. The justification for that is that the people who don't believe in a woman's right to choose shouldn't have to pay for abortions. Well, I don't approve of the Iraq war. So why should my tax dollars go to support that?